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I am currently a plaintiff in two court cases that challenge the LEARNS Act, and am not at liberty to argue those cases in this forum. However, there...
To help my mom and the rest of the family since the loss of my dad, a Triple F family member spends each night at her house. We call these slumber...
I am sitting in my dad's truck at the Ozark Country Club, a place I am certain this farm vehicle never has been before. My dad had no use for such...
This week marked the first day I returned to the studio at the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Fayetteville to record a vodcast since my...
Full disclosure: I am currently a plaintiff in two court cases that challenge the LEARNS Act, and not at liberty to argue those specific cases in this...
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James Arlius Ford was what one might call an ordinary man.
I am never far from my phone. Several years ago, my mother had a stroke, which jarred me into the reality of my parents' vulnerability.
Last week I wrote about our adventures in Fiji and many special people we met there. I said I could write a whole column about the Russians there....
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It is 2 p.m. Daughters Stella and Adelaide and I are on board the Yasawa Flyer, a boat that will take us from where we were for a week, Nanuya LaiLai,...
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I am writing this from Nanuya Lailai, a tiny island inhabited by fewer than 100 people in the Yasawas archipelago off the west coast of Fiji's main...
I met Lisa when she emailed me a few years ago out of the blue. She introduced herself as a friend of Bill Bowden, the Democrat-Gazette writer I...
I have been thinking about what divides us. It is a subject never far from my mind because of what our country and state and my life have looked like...
Last week I wrote a column discussing bad marriage advice I had been given from fundamentalist Christians in various organizations I inhabited before...
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This is an opinion column with no set subject, which is fun because I can write whatever is on my mind. Sometimes that's politics. Other times it is...
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I went into Dollar General last week to get dog food. Our custom, since acquiring an excessive number of dogs, has been to pick up five or so 50-pound...
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My dad recently turned 80. Of all the things swirling in my head to write about for this column, that fact--he--surpasses them all. There's a theme...
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As promised, here's the rest of Dr. Glen Fenter's speech at the recent Charleston Chamber of Commerce banquet:
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Last week I voluntarily attended the Chamber of Commerce banquet in Charleston. I say "voluntarily" because in these times that try the soul, I find...
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I met Kristin Foster a few years back when we both worked for non-profit organizations with different roles, but the same purpose of making Arkansas...
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I recently contributed several pieces to the annual devotional series "Mornings with Jesus" published by Guideposts Corporation. The format for the...
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I am writing this from Anchorage, Alaska, where my two youngest daughters and I have come for spring break to visit a friend. I haven't seen him in...
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Vodcast viewers may remember my recent conversation with education genius and Marion superintendent Dr. Glen Fenter...
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Today's installment of the Epstein Unraveling--my last, for my sanity's sake as well as my editor's--is how we got from the piddly jail time Epstein...
In March 2005, the parent of a 14-year-old victim of Jeffrey Epstein took her child to the Palm Beach County Police Department to report the abuse....
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